On Apr 13, 2004 at 21:10, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell in a soothing rage wrote: >On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:24:15AM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb jludwig um 03:44: >> >> > RPM installs packages. Make compiles (makes) them. Two totally different >> > beasts. >> >> > jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Matt certainly meant not rpm (-i) but rpmbuild, to create a kernel rpm >> which then integrates well to the whole RPM based system. At least that >> was my implicit understanding of his comment. > >I also thought he intended rpmbuild. > >Can someone compare and contrast the value of make install >and "rpm -i". > >Without looking in detail "rpm -e" could be an advantage. I think the main advantage is 'rpm -q'. Deleting a kernel is just a matter of deleting the entries in /lib/modules, /boot and lilo/grub conf. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken 07:55:02 up 24 days, 20:27, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
